Heavy Cloud is the primary recording project of Ryan Hooper, a Cornwall-based sound maker, artist and writer who creates mixed media work inspired by memory and landscapes.

Blurring the edges of presence and absence, "Archive in the Wind", his debut on Mahorka, drifts like forgotten signals across power lines – an elegy of memory stored, lost and reassembled.

Released May 16, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in limited audio cassette edition.

The album weaves a delicate lattice of sonic decay and reverie, where each fragment of sound clings like dust to the edges of memory, dissolving as soon as it's touched.

Tracks like "Vestige Horizon" and "Achilles in the Margin" stretch time into slow-burning expanse, while shorter pieces such as "Windflowers" flicker like fragile recollections.

Rooted in the windswept textures of Cornwall, this album is a haunting meditation on impermanence, memory and the spaces between.

Soft are the wounds
carried by wind

We vanish
in the spaces
between songs

"Archive in the Wind" was created with tapes, synths, field recordings, found sounds and objects in Cornwall, England 2025

Performed, recorded and mixed by Heavy Cloud
Artwork by Heavy Cloud

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